George W. Bush Quotes

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

I give the children education.

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

Education has to be more than tests and formulas.

Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped to thrive in today's world and so it's important for teachers to ensure that students gain the foundation necessary to meet the baseline educational standards these tests represent.

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.